Managing an Oracle shop

Has Oracle misled us about 11g?

Is Oracle 11g not yet as successful as we may have been led to believe? According to Pythian Group CEO Paul Vallee, the answer is yes. Vallee claims his research shows that Oracle 11g is being adopted at slower...

What’s OAUG making at the “Knowledge Factory”?

I recently wrote about a post by Infoworld blogger Sean McCown, who argued that the real difference between Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle is the accessible community that...

Oracle builds on database lead

The RDBMS market grew about 12% in 2007, with Oracle once again emerging as the market's top vendor. According to the "Worldwide...

Documenting an 11g upgrade

An upgrade to Oracle 11g (or any database upgrade for that matter) requires careful attention to planning and documentation, as Maria Anderson pointed out in her session on upgrading to...

Eating a whale sandwich — a real-life Fusion roadmap

I caught an interesting session this week at Collaborate with Floyd Teter, who's with the Jet Propulsion Lab, a bunch of scientists in Pasadena, Calif. working for NASA.

Teter's...

CaSe SEnsITive PasSWoRds and other Oracle 11g features

Last year, much of the attention at Collaborate focused on new features coming in database 11g. Now that it's been released and digested by early adopters and beta testers, people are...

Phillips slams SAP, brags about databases at Collaborate ‘08

Oracle may not be done yet. In his opening keynote address at Collaborate '08 here in Denver, Oracle president Charles Phillips outlined Oracle's strategy to dominate the database, middleware and applications markets. The database market seems to be well in hand. To applause from the audience,...

Is Yahoo the next PeopleSoft?

Last month I posted about a New York Times article in which Larry Ellison touted Oracle's acquisition strategy. He wondered why more companies didn't follow in his footsteps by pursuing...

The Oracle security debate

Oracle DBAs:  To what do you attribute problems with Oracle security?

a.) poorly designed software
b.) failure to apply  patches and maintain software
c.) lack of financial resources
d.) all of the above

This question has recently made a small stir in the...

Is the SQL community more open than the Oracle community?

InfoWorld blogger Sean McCown recently had his say in the Oracle vs. Microsoft SQL Server debate -- and some Oracle users aren't too happy about it. In "The real difference between SQL Server and Oracle,"...